Tsuchiya Koitsu
Four Small Woodblock Prints
Titles: Kiyomizu Temple, Arashiyama, Kawaguchi Lake, and Kintai Bridge in Iwaki
Date: 1940s-50s.
Size: Approximately 3.5 x 2.25 inches.
Publisher: Shobido Tanaka.
Koitsu catalog nos. TK-SB-50, TK-SB-51, TK-SB-52, TK-SB-53.
These woodblock prints are tipped at the top edge to the covers of blank bridge tallies.
Condition: Excellent.

Fine Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Hu Jar

This attractive pottery jar of "hu" form was made some 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is quite "heavily-potted" and made from a reddish pottery, coated in a finely-cracked green glaze that varies in thickness. In places it has acquired a silvery iridescence, a result of exposure to moisture during its long burial. There are lightly incised decorative bands surrounding the body in places. To the flat base are the typ...

Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Jar

This pottery jar of "guan" form was made some 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is quite "heavily-potted" and made from a reddish pottery that is coated with a green glaze, the colour of which varies in places. As is often the case with Han dynasty glazed pottery, there are kiln scars to the upper surface of the mouth and the base from the spacers that separated such jars when they were stacked on top of each other in the kiln...

Rare Chinese Yuan Dynasty Early "Blue & White" Vase

This rare and attractively-shaped vase or bottle was made during the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368) by one of the kilns at Yuxi county in Yunnan province, one of the first places in the world where blue & white ware was produced. It is "heavily-potted" and decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with floral and leaf designs. It is coated with a clear glaze that falls short of the sturdy foot. Similar wares were first unearthed in 1973 in Lufeng ...

(After) Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934)
Treasure Ship (Takarabune)
Dated Wednesday, March 2, 1938.
Size: 7.5 x 5.375 inches (19 x 13.6 cm).
A cover of a menu of the N.Y.K. Line passenger ship, Katori Maru.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved ...

A large Chinese snuff bottle, made from mottled brown amber, the stopper en suite. Carved with relief decoration of birds among flowering trees, the sides with lion masks. Condition: few traces of usage, no spoon. Dimension: total height: c. 7.3 cm, c. 6.8 cm wide, c. 3.9 cm deep.

Rare pair of Northern Qi soldiers, circa 550CE-577CE, with original pigments both are in excellent condition- please note the profiles with their jutting jaws and stubborn countenance reflecting their Mongol/Turkic heritage. H: 20cm/7.9in.

Burmese wooden lotus Buddha sitting in Mara Vijaya (calling the earth to witness) posture on a base with gilded gold.

Age: Burma, Mandalay Period, 19th Century
Size: Height 13 C.M. / Width 8 C.M. / Depth 4.5 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

This piece was fired in anagama for 10 days, so melted natural ashes made beautiful glass glaze. Size: 6.1cm(D) 4.8cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist.

This piece was fired in anagama for 10 days with madara glaze that is made of rice straw ashes, very refine cup. Size: 6.8cm(D) 5.2cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist.

This piece was fired in anagama for 10 days with chosen-karatsu glaze, it has very quiet atmosphere. The front is seemed a face of bird. It would be used as a pouring bowl for sake or dressing. Size: 11.5cm(length) 8.6cm(wide) 8.7cm(height)

This piece is fired in anagama for 10 days with Chosen-kararsu glaze, it is seemed a scenery of Mt. Fuji. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwoe2ZzB8Gc Size: 10.1cm(D) 15.0cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist.

A lacquered writing box in the shape of a kimono sleeve (sode) covered in soaring silver and gold geese among autumn reeds and Togidashi clouds with a secondary (inner) sleeve shape covered in Karakusa vine tendrils on black enclosed in an age darkened kiri wood box. The inside is covered entirely in nashiji gold powder, and contains a grinding stone, and a water dropper of copper inset into the tray. Also enclosed are a bamboo brush and gilded ink stick decorated with a squirrel on a grapevin...

STONE TANUKI

Traditionally auspicious Japanese okimono of tanuki (raccoon dog) especially for thriving business that literally stands for "Getting a lead on other" in Japanese words, but or that's why? with such a fool but a lovely face. 1940s. H 23 x 10 x 8 cm (9.05 x 3.93 x 3.14in).


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WHITE PORCELAIN MAKGEOLLI BOTTLE

Early-mid 20th century, Korea, H 22 x D 14 cm (8.66 x 5.51in). Well-grown abstract scenery with aesthetic stains due to aging as is with frequent use by the drunks as everyday use. Some fine scratches generally and crack at mouth part as seen.


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GIRL

Anonymous Japanese cubism oil painting on canvas, Showa period, 20th century, 32 x 41 x 1.5 cm (12.59 x 16.14 x 0.59in). Aged deterioration as is.


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Antique Chinese 8 panel coromandel screen with a carved lacquer palace scene of noble figures on one side, pine trees and animals on the other. An inscription states that the screen was carved in the eleventh month of the thirty-second year of Kangxi. There is a poem that talks about the proud and powerful pine tree reaching for the sky and an approaching storm. The inscription also mentions a congratulations to Guo Zanzhang, a candidate for the the title of Dengshilang. Artist mentioned: Homgd...

(After) Imanaka Soyu (1886-1959)
Pheasant
Dated August 13th, 1936.
Size: 7.5 x 5.375 inches (19 x 13.6 cm).
A cover of a menu of the Nippon Yusen Line passenger ship, Chichibu Maru.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print after a Soyu painting. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carve...